MICHAEL COLEMAN

A remarkably talented and successful Provo-born and -based painter of realistic western subjects (particularly the northern native American ), during the 1960s he was known mainly for "new-Barbizon" landscapes of a rather handsome if formulary type that would, through those years, fill the coffers of now-departed gallery operator Dewey Moore. He is the very first Utah artist to make his career solely through his art, and is still the only living Utah artist to be sold by Christie's and Sotheby's auction houses. Coleman is also well known for his oils and bronzes of big game, especially African. His technique is original, and he is noted for a fineness of color and light. (b. June 25)

Olpin, Robert S., William C. Seifrit, and Vern G. Swanson. ARTISTS OF UTAH. Salt Lake City: Gibbs Smith Publisher, 1999: 56.